Nice little alley... 17th century by all accounts.. interesting cross section of history.. I think the Krays house was demolished to make way for an office block or similar... Culture wreckers more like ... Krays are a huge part of London history like it or not .. they'll be remembered when the culture wreckers are pushing up the daisies ☺️ Great vlogs... I prefer your rustic, down to earth type vlogs... Thanks 👍
Paul. Really good video mate. It’s nice you took the time out to do this. I’m 41 and used to live by the taxi arches on collingwood street in the 80’s till the turn of the millennium. I used to go with my nan “down the lane” at the Sunday market and come back with useless crap lol still loved it. We always used to say hi to Charlie who sold used office furniture warehouse on Bacon Street off brick lane next to the Bigel shop. He was a lovely man . RIP … Steve. Always loved the east end even if it has changed . Barmy park fun fair, museum of childhood , white horse kebabs , noodle king , weavers park , Rude Bimmers / Mercs . Perfume pat on her stall opposite Percy ingles . Also, liked the jungle tune you put at the end of the video! My era of course haha . All the best.
From old maps, I can tell you, what is now known as Voss St., was originally three separately named streets or alleys. They were Granby Row, Elliott’s Row, and Thomas Passage. Even the 4 cross streets have been renamed. Maybe this will help with why the street is named Voss.
Great Videos Paul. Love to know the history of people and places. It must have been an amazing place to live. It seems to me like your where right in the heart of all. I have had an interest in the Krays for as long as I can remember. So thanks for the tour around town and the twins place. All the best and keep those vid's coming.
Always loved that accent. Always thought of it as “cockney”…. 1st if your videos I’ve watched. Love it. Thanks from Australia 😀. Oxford ‘Ouse, you sound like “Madness”. Anyone seen our Ouse.. I must have lived in England in a previous life, I just love the history.❤❤❤ I’m from Adelaide, we have lots of English named suburbs, we have a Mile End and Hackney too.
Top video Paul. I’m not a Londoner but been to a few away trips as an away football fan down London. Certain parts of London really intrigue me. Nice 1 enjoyed that…. Smithy
I moved from hackney in 2001 to Essex lol my last flat was stokey gibson gardens so I see a lot of the krays homes and I'm 45 so remember vallance road as it was xx
I wrote a book set in Bethnal green “Don’t believe the truth - the rise of Phil Webster” a gangster thriller. It’s part of a trilogy I released a few years ago. I’m currently writing a follow up called never give up and had to decide on a street where the main character lives this video really helped get a feel of the place before I visit again and Derbyshire street is perfect. The previous book the main character lived in Canrobert street. Anyway many thanks great video all very interesting to me 👍
Andrew thanks for the kind words, glad I could assist you in some way!! Canrobert street is where my wife lived as a young girl, she lived right down the bottom behind the Kwik Fit garage, I also had numerous friends who lived in Canrobert street, one of them being my best friend at school, to this day we are still good friends & still meet up to drink & go fishing, also on the junction of Canrobert street & Old Bethnal Green road was the King's Arms pub, I spent years of my life in there getting pissed & having a laugh, sadly like many East End pubs, it no longer exists, it was turned into flats years ago, I could go on for ages about my links with this street, all the best my friend & good luck with your writing!
@@pauladams6802 many thanks 👍 I feel like I know the place although I’ve only been a handful of times. Can’t wait to go again! There’s lots of fascinating history in Bethnal Green. 👍 Im taking my son for the first first time hopefully he appreciates it as much as I do
I used to knock about around there in the early seventies, behind the red Church was the Westminster arms where we all used to drink before going over to the Greengate to listen to the music, you'd often see us all on our fizzy mopeds, we were all telegram boys and Charlie Magri was a regular client as was John H Stracey, good days and plenty of rows with the Hoxton lot.
Interesting looking aorund these old streets, I can imagine how they were once filled with people going about their business, instead now all you hear is vehicles.
David it's quite a trendy place nowadays, when I was a kid around there it was rundown, there was prefabs & wasteland bounded by corrugated iron, we used to call them debris (debreez), as kids we used to play in them!
Had some great times in Oxford House youth club. Errol and Julie also. If I remember rightly, Julies son was in the Heinz Baked Beans advert - big deal at the time.
@@pauladams6802 yes m8 - loving your vids. Very interesting. The Limehouse Basin made me laugh - I remember Adams 'scatty' dog. Great screen presence - just great hearing and seeing one of your own.
remember a scrap yard just off white chappell road,"peters".he bought cars for wieght.we took in at least 4 cars per day.that was back in 89.40 quid a car,4 cars per day,lot better than a days work ;)
I remember in the paper a fews ago it was a family they had lived in a house in the top of Vallence Road/Voss St for a 120 years. It had been passed down they moved in in the 1880s they guy that lives there now it was his great, great whatever grandparents from Italy that first moved amazing, the family paid £500 in the 60s for it
Interesting video. I couldn't tell you for sure about why it's called Voss street, but I do know that Voss can be a family name, so I assume at one point there was a Mr.Voss either involved with the street or perhaps influential enough in London to get a random street named after him, but has since been pretty forgotten. That's life I suppose.
How the f--king hell do they paint pictures right up there? I left Bethnal Green in 1965, it was a bit different then. Lived in Old Ford Rd, about a hundred yards from the York Hall. Learned to swim there.
Interesting my mate used to live on valence Road in a flat he brought with compo from the metropolitan police he was one of the founding members the London posse RIP Sipho
Just a shot in the dark to answer your question, l used to work with a bloke whose Surname was Voss, so l'm wondering if Voss St is named after a person. I've never heard of the word other than that. I used to live in Idmiston Rd E15, which is another meaningless word to me! You deserve far more than 37 Subscibers, your videos are great.
Cheers James, I got a few more subscribers now but it's hard to find the time to keep making videos in my busy schedule, there will be more when the time is right but thanks for your kind words! As for Voss I did extensively research the name but could find no prominent figures bearing that surname, although like you, I did know a Voss growing up in Bethnal Green, must just be a commonly found surname in the East End!
I've been looking through the research I did on my family history, (Census records) in 1860 they lived at 7 Hague Street Bethnel Green. I can't believe its the building on the left @6:45, my G G grandparents, (Maternal) They moved there from 59 Curtain Road. amazing thinking about that. My dad's father was born @ number 22 Turner Street Limehouse and his father (Great Gramps) died in that house 2 weeks before he was born.
@@pauladams6802Imagine that, thanks paul. From Hague Street they moved to 9 Marian street (Houses gone) then to 74 Lichfiled Road Bow/Mile End, a house which he bought. I got alot of info from Census records, and the Drapers company which is where they started, 7 generations. Your videos are really uplifting Paul thanks mate. You've caught on camera my Great Grandad's old workshop in Shoreditch and one of his houses in Bethnel Green, what are the odds!
I went too weaversfield school my nan and grandad lived in goldsmiths close I lived in burdett Road so wasn't local just ended up in that school cos it was for naughty kids which I was...lol did Charlie magri have too shops then cos I no he had the pet shop on the Roman road.?
Damn, wasn't that much graffiti there when I was growing up as a kid! My favourite pie & mash shop (near Percy Ingles's) closed down there years ago. Used to be £1 for one pie and two mash!
351 subscribers now. But how do people live in these places? I'm in a quiet green suburb(not posh) half a world away in Australia. Do people not have cars? I saw no parking. Are there gardens out the back? Where do the residents children play?
Kelly I used to play on these streets when I was a child, we didn't have a car when I was a young child although my mother did learn to drive when I was a little older, you would park anywhere you could find a space!! Some bigger properties had their own gardens but i lived in a flat with no garden, there were a few green spaces dotted around. It made me really appreciate the countryside & coastline whenever we got experience it as we were a million miles away from that!
@Kelly Souter the krays weren't into children children played in the streets all their lives in Bethnal it was safe they had respect for old people and children there were lots of old villains like the krays they mixed with their own and respected the rest of us thats when people knew the meaning if the word respect changed now never be like the old days
It's been many years since I lived in London but I believe that the last German bomb dropped on the UK at the end of the WW II landed in Vallance Road killing quite a few people, perhaps you or one of your followers could verify that for me!
James thanks, I lived very close to here for most of my life until I moved out but I never heard of that nugget of information, would be interesting to find out!
@@pauladams6802 Hi Paul, thank you for getting back to me, I've only just found your channel but I've watched a couple now and looking forward to catching up on them all. I was born and brought up in Stratford E15 although to be honest I haven't been back to London for a few years now but it's really interesting to see how quickly London has changed. With regards to the Vallance Road bombing incident, I can't remember how I first heard the story, I'm in my 70s now and whilst I was born after the war had ended I was fully aware of the destruction of the London bombings as a child because our play areas were all the old bomb sites and debris as they were known. In my younger working life I often used to drive passed the end of Vallance Road and often used to think, 'haunted', if you like, by this story of people and possibly families going through all the horrors of the war only to be taken out in the last few hours so I really hope this was just another 'urban myth'. Keep up the videos, I have subscribed so will be looking out for them!
I lived in Teasdale st next to the George pub from 1960 for 12 years before we moved to bow, I remember Charlie Magri shop I also rember Bennys the barbers before that
I was born in vallance rd 1961 grew up thru the 60s 70s 80s early 90s great times great people thanks paul for the memories
Lee thanks, great people for sure mate!
Thanks for reply drove thru there 2 weeks ago and couldnt believe the graffiti really sad
I went to school in Vallance rd , Robert Montifiore
The back streets and their history tell tales that are amazing, love seeing these.
Pat thank you.
Nice little alley... 17th century by all accounts.. interesting cross section of history.. I think the Krays house was demolished to make way for an office block or similar... Culture wreckers more like ... Krays are a huge part of London history like it or not .. they'll be remembered when the culture wreckers are pushing up the daisies ☺️
Great vlogs... I prefer your rustic, down to earth type vlogs... Thanks 👍
Greg thanks, glad you're enjoying the vlogs my friend.
Paul. Really good video mate. It’s nice you took the time out to do this. I’m 41 and used to live by the taxi arches on collingwood street in the 80’s till the turn of the millennium. I used to go with my nan “down the lane” at the Sunday market and come back with useless crap lol still loved it. We always used to say hi to Charlie who sold used office furniture warehouse on Bacon Street off brick lane next to the Bigel shop. He was a lovely man . RIP … Steve. Always loved the east end even if it has changed . Barmy park fun fair, museum of childhood , white horse kebabs , noodle king , weavers park , Rude Bimmers / Mercs . Perfume pat on her stall opposite Percy ingles . Also, liked the jungle tune you put at the end of the video! My era of course haha . All the best.
Fantastic video about the backstreets really enjoyed it subscribed cheers 🍻🍻🍻
Well done Paul, nice remembrances. Do some more Paul cheers
Great video mate ....l bet it was a lot better in your day
From old maps, I can tell you, what is now known as Voss St., was originally three separately named streets or alleys. They were Granby Row, Elliott’s Row, and Thomas Passage. Even the 4 cross streets have been renamed. Maybe this will help with why the street is named Voss.
Jesse thanks for the info!
Great Videos Paul. Love to know the history of people and places. It must have been an amazing place to live. It seems to me like your where right in the heart of all. I have had an interest in the Krays for as long as I can remember. So thanks for the tour around town and the twins place. All the best and keep those vid's coming.
Gail thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the video!
Always loved that accent. Always thought of it as “cockney”…. 1st if your videos I’ve watched. Love it. Thanks from Australia 😀. Oxford ‘Ouse, you sound like “Madness”. Anyone seen our Ouse.. I must have lived in England in a previous life, I just love the history.❤❤❤ I’m from Adelaide, we have lots of English named suburbs, we have a Mile End and Hackney too.
Top video Paul. I’m not a Londoner but been to a few away trips as an away football fan down London. Certain parts of London really intrigue me. Nice 1 enjoyed that…. Smithy
Going over in September with my son for the tour walk about cant wait😊😊😊😊😊 from ireland 🇮🇪 😍
I enjoyed the video. I hope you will do plenty more. I don't expect you will run out of material any time soon in London.
Steve thanks, I will produce more content when I can my friend!
I used to live in Gales Gardens I moved out to Norwich in 1987! Love the DnB at the end 🔥
Gales Gardens is where my best friend lived!
I moved from hackney in 2001 to Essex lol my last flat was stokey gibson gardens so I see a lot of the krays homes and I'm 45 so remember vallance road as it was xx
Im born and bred in bethnal green been here 51 years
Brilliant video
Anne thank you!
I wrote a book set in Bethnal green “Don’t believe the truth - the rise of Phil Webster” a gangster thriller.
It’s part of a trilogy I released a few years ago.
I’m currently writing a follow up called never give up and had to decide on a street where the main character lives this video really helped get a feel of the place before I visit again and Derbyshire street is perfect.
The previous book the main character lived in Canrobert street.
Anyway many thanks great video all very interesting to me 👍
Andrew thanks for the kind words, glad I could assist you in some way!! Canrobert street is where my wife lived as a young girl, she lived right down the bottom behind the Kwik Fit garage, I also had numerous friends who lived in Canrobert street, one of them being my best friend at school, to this day we are still good friends & still meet up to drink & go fishing, also on the junction of Canrobert street & Old Bethnal Green road was the King's Arms pub, I spent years of my life in there getting pissed & having a laugh, sadly like many East End pubs, it no longer exists, it was turned into flats years ago, I could go on for ages about my links with this street, all the best my friend & good luck with your writing!
@@pauladams6802 many thanks 👍 I feel like I know the place although I’ve only been a handful of times.
Can’t wait to go again! There’s lots of fascinating history in Bethnal Green.
👍 Im taking my son for the first first time hopefully he appreciates it as much as I do
You can really get to know about a neighborhood by looking at its backstreets
I used to knock about around there in the early seventies, behind the red Church was the Westminster arms where we all used to drink before going over to the Greengate to listen to the music, you'd often see us all on our fizzy mopeds, we were all telegram boys and Charlie Magri was a regular client as was John H Stracey, good days and plenty of rows with the Hoxton lot.
Lol Dave, happy memories, Hoxton is so trendy & gentrified now!
Interesting looking aorund these old streets, I can imagine how they were once filled with people going about their business, instead now all you hear is vehicles.
David it's quite a trendy place nowadays, when I was a kid around there it was rundown, there was prefabs & wasteland bounded by corrugated iron, we used to call them debris (debreez), as kids we used to play in them!
Had some great times in Oxford House youth club. Errol and Julie also. If I remember rightly, Julies son was in the Heinz Baked Beans advert - big deal at the time.
Is that the Brad Paris I know & love!! If so, how ya doing mate?
@@pauladams6802 yes m8 - loving your vids. Very interesting. The Limehouse Basin made me laugh - I remember Adams 'scatty' dog. Great screen presence - just great hearing and seeing one of your own.
can imagine Ronny slunging away on the cobbles
It has gone massively downhill
I remember Charlies sports shop on Bethnal Green Road I used to go in there around 1979/80 for boxing kit.
Kenneth, we couldn't believe a world champion boxer had a shop so close, we used to go in there with no intention to buy anything just to see him!
remember a scrap yard just off white chappell road,"peters".he bought cars for wieght.we took in at least 4 cars per day.that was back in 89.40 quid a car,4 cars per day,lot better than a days work ;)
Chris it sounds like you had a good thing going there mate!
Looks like Chicago, San Fran, NYC, St Louis
I remember in the paper a fews ago it was a family they had lived in a house in the top of Vallence Road/Voss St for a 120 years. It had been passed down they moved in in the 1880s they guy that lives there now it was his great, great whatever grandparents from Italy that first moved amazing, the family paid £500 in the 60s for it
Very interesting. Thanks👍
Alethea thank you!
Great area then and now every thing always changes super london best city in the world
Terry thanks!
Interesting video. I couldn't tell you for sure about why it's called Voss street, but I do know that Voss can be a family name, so I assume at one point there was a Mr.Voss either involved with the street or perhaps influential enough in London to get a random street named after him, but has since been pretty forgotten. That's life I suppose.
I tried online to find the link with Voss, the family name, the German connection, all sorts of avenues but found nothing, lost in the mists of time!
How the f--king hell do they paint pictures right up there? I left Bethnal Green in 1965, it was a bit different then. Lived in Old Ford Rd, about a hundred yards from the York Hall. Learned to swim there.
I am sure most of us remember Bootsy, even today I am ashamed of the way as a kid I treated her
Graffiti is crazy.
Generally people don't like it but if it's there for all to see, I like to record it!
Interesting my mate used to live on valence Road in a flat he brought with compo from the metropolitan police he was one of the founding members the London posse RIP Sipho
Cheers David, glad you found the video interesting!
Very interesting,but changed alot since I lived there I left in 1980
Liz thanks!
The other end of Voss street only looks posher cos the kids ran out of paint by the time they got there.
Just a shot in the dark to answer your question, l used to work with a bloke whose Surname was Voss, so l'm wondering if Voss St is named after a person. I've never heard of the word other than that.
I used to live in Idmiston Rd E15, which is another meaningless word to me!
You deserve far more than 37 Subscibers, your videos are great.
Cheers James, I got a few more subscribers now but it's hard to find the time to keep making videos in my busy schedule, there will be more when the time is right but thanks for your kind words! As for Voss I did extensively research the name but could find no prominent figures bearing that surname, although like you, I did know a Voss growing up in Bethnal Green, must just be a commonly found surname in the East End!
I've been looking through the research I did on my family history, (Census records) in 1860 they lived at 7 Hague Street Bethnel Green. I can't believe its the building on the left @6:45, my G G grandparents, (Maternal) They moved there from 59 Curtain Road. amazing thinking about that. My dad's father was born @ number 22 Turner Street Limehouse and his father (Great Gramps) died in that house 2 weeks before he was born.
David wow, glad I could shine a little light into your family history, I grew up literally a 30 second walk from Hague street!
@@pauladams6802Imagine that, thanks paul. From Hague Street they moved to 9 Marian street (Houses gone) then to 74 Lichfiled Road Bow/Mile End, a house which he bought. I got alot of info from Census records, and the Drapers company which is where they started, 7 generations. Your videos are really uplifting Paul thanks mate. You've caught on camera my Great Grandad's old workshop in Shoreditch and one of his houses in Bethnel Green, what are the odds!
Where do the steps lead to ?
I went too weaversfield school my nan and grandad lived in goldsmiths close I lived in burdett Road so wasn't local just ended up in that school cos it was for naughty kids which I was...lol did Charlie magri have too shops then cos I no he had the pet shop on the Roman road.?
Damn, wasn't that much graffiti there when I was growing up as a kid! My favourite pie & mash shop (near Percy Ingles's) closed down there years ago. Used to be £1 for one pie and two mash!
The graffiti ruins the area, if its well done it can enhance a building but most of it is rubbish.
I lived in bethnal Green mansford street
I have read a few books and have films
351 subscribers now. But how do people live in these places? I'm in a quiet green suburb(not posh) half a world away in Australia. Do people not have cars? I saw no parking. Are there gardens out the back? Where do the residents children play?
Kelly I used to play on these streets when I was a child, we didn't have a car when I was a young child although my mother did learn to drive when I was a little older, you would park anywhere you could find a space!! Some bigger properties had their own gardens but i lived in a flat with no garden, there were a few green spaces dotted around. It made me really appreciate the countryside & coastline whenever we got experience it as we were a million miles away from that!
Looks as thou there lots a homes down that street
Thomas yes there is
You must of known my aunt she lived above the bank
Did you used to do a fishing channel?
Patrick yes, still do!
@@pauladams6802 Great channel 👍
Hardly somewhere to park.
Predo get less in prison
Jack the hat pushed he'd girlfriend out of a car made her disabled
Oxford assss 😎
Perfect English!
Didn't the Krays like thr kids a bit too much?? People don't know that much any more.
I know one Kray was gay and the other was mad. I don't know if they were into children, that's new to me.
Who knows? I didn't know them personally!
both was gayboys and nonce
@Kelly Souter the krays weren't into children children played in the streets all their lives in Bethnal it was safe they had respect for old people and children there were lots of old villains like the krays they mixed with their own and respected the rest of us thats when people knew the meaning if the word respect changed now never be like the old days
Oi
What a dump them back streets are bro. Has it always been so shady looking..
It's been many years since I lived in London but I believe that the last German bomb dropped on the UK at the end of the WW II landed in Vallance Road killing quite a few people, perhaps you or one of your followers could verify that for me!
James thanks, I lived very close to here for most of my life until I moved out but I never heard of that nugget of information, would be interesting to find out!
@@pauladams6802 Hi Paul, thank you for getting back to me, I've only just found your channel but I've watched a couple now and looking forward to catching up on them all. I was born and brought up in Stratford E15 although to be honest I haven't been back to London for a few years now but it's really interesting to see how quickly London has changed.
With regards to the Vallance Road bombing incident, I can't remember how I first heard the story, I'm in my 70s now and whilst I was born after the war had ended I was fully aware of the destruction of the London bombings as a child because our play areas were all the old bomb sites and debris as they were known.
In my younger working life I often used to drive passed the end of Vallance Road and often used to think, 'haunted', if you like, by this story of people and possibly families going through all the horrors of the war only to be taken out in the last few hours so I really hope this was just another 'urban myth'.
Keep up the videos, I have subscribed so will be looking out for them!
Shit ‘ole
Boring video with no history or knowledge to share
I lived in Teasdale st next to the George pub from 1960 for 12 years before we moved to bow, I remember Charlie Magri shop I also rember Bennys the barbers before that
I remember Ray's barber shop along there next to R J's decorating shop but Benny's must have been before my time
Do you remember the Irene Greenhead she lived there
Sorry I dont know the name but I may of know her@@veronicabingham6018
38 now
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voss . Is this any help?
West Ham ......let's go you Irons!!!!!
I'm an Orient supporter, we've just been promoted as champions, Up the O's!! I hope the hammers stay up this season though!